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خ-ل-ص

Kha-Lam-Sad

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Kha-Lam-Sad (خ-ل-ص) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ikhlāṣ (sincerity / purity of devotion).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 31 times in 30 verses, across 17 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:94.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
إِخْلَاصٌ
ikhlāṣ
sincerity / purity of devotionnoun, B1Character, Community, and Worship

In the Quran

قُلْ إِن كَانَتْ لَكُمُ ٱلدَّارُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ خَالِصَةً مِّن دُونِ ٱلنَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا۟ ٱلْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ

Say (unto them): If the abode of the Hereafter in the providence of Allah is indeed for you alone and not for others of mankind (as ye pretend), then long for death (for ye must long for death) if ye are truthful.

Quran 2:94
قُلْ أَتُحَآجُّونَنَا فِى ٱللَّهِ وَهُوَ رَبُّنَا وَرَبُّكُمْ وَلَنَآ أَعْمَـٰلُنَا وَلَكُمْ أَعْمَـٰلُكُمْ وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ مُخْلِصُونَ

Say (unto the People of the Scripture): Dispute ye with us concerning Allah when He is our Lord and your Lord? Ours are our works and yours your works. We look to Him alone.

Quran 2:139
إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ تَابُوا۟ وَأَصْلَحُوا۟ وَٱعْتَصَمُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَأَخْلَصُوا۟ دِينَهُمْ لِلَّهِ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ مَعَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۖ وَسَوْفَ يُؤْتِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا

Save those who repent and amend and hold fast to Allah and make their religion pure for Allah (only). Those are with the believers. And Allah will bestow on the believers an immense reward.

Quran 4:146

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B1noun
إِخْلَاصٌ
ikhlāṣ

sincerity / purity of devotion

Example
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
qul huwa Allāhu aḥad
Say: He is Allah, the One (112:1)
Grammar

Form IV maṣdar (إِفْعَال). Verb: أَخْلَصَ (to be sincere/purify). مُخْلِصٌ (sincere person). Surah al-Ikhlāṣ (112) is named 'Sincerity/Purity.'

Culture

Ikhlāṣ means purifying one's intention for God alone - no deed is accepted without it. Surah al-Ikhlāṣ distills pure monotheism into four verses.

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